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The Naval Academy Preparatory School or NAPS is the preparatory school for the United States Naval Academy. NAPS is located on a hill at Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island. The mission of the Naval Academy Preparatory School is "To enhance Midshipman Candidates' moral, mental, and physical foundations to prepare them for success at the United States Naval Academy". The student body, which is organized as a battalion, is divided into three companies, which are then divided into two platoons each. Each platoon is divided into four squads in order to carry out orders with effective results. While attending NAPS, students hold the rank of Midshipman Candidate, equivalent to the Navy's Seaman Recruit, at the enlisted pay grade of E-1, although this is significantly reduced in an effort to allocate funds into the Battalion Activity Fund (BAF) and to pay off all debts owed due to issued uniforms and miscellaneous items. The BAF is used to pay for expensive Battalion level trips, such as the Army-Navy game, Graduation Ball and the like; whatever funds that are not spent are either allocated into a Battalion-decided activity or disseminated to the pay of the NAPSters, although this shows up as an increase in pay during their 1/C Midshipman monthly allowance.〔"Naval Academy Preparatory School Reefpoints." MS. Naval Academy Preparatory School, Newport.〕 A common nickname for a Midshipmen Candidates is "NAPSter".〔 ==History== The Naval Academy Preparatory School is the Navy’s fourth oldest school; only the Naval War College, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Naval Academy are older. Informal preparatory classes began as early as 1915. In 1918, the Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels signed a provision to have up to 100 sailors from the fleet to be eligible for entry to the Academy. Due to the difficult nature of the Naval Academy's entrance examination, then Undersecretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt also allowed for a school to be founded to prepare Sailors and Marines for entry. The first official classes were established at Naval Station, Newport and Naval Station, San Francisco in 1920. A year later the schools were moved to Norfolk, VA and San Diego, CA. San Diego classes were disestablished and NAPS classes remained solely in Norfolk until 1942, when the new Naval Academy Preparatory School opened in Newport, RI. In early 1943, NAPS moved to the United States Naval Training Center, Bainbridge, a facility of several hundred acres located above the Susquehanna River, some northeast of Baltimore, Maryland. NAPS returned to Newport while the Bainbridge Center was temporarily inactive during a 15-month period around 1950. When Bainbridge was reactivated in 1951 because of the Korean War, the preparatory school returned to Maryland. In August 1974, NAPS returned to its permanent home in Newport. From 1915 to the year 1968 NAPS was exclusively for Sailors and Marines who were of "Officer Caliber" but lacked the academic foundation for the rigors at The United States Naval Academy. In 1968 The first male "Direct Entries" were admitted to NAPS. Following the congressional authorization of women to attend all service academies, women were admitted in 1976. Although NAPS primarily serves as an institution to prepare Midshipman candidates to attend The United States Naval Academy; from the years 1958 to 2008 it began to prepare Cadet candidates for the United States Air Force Academy (1958-1961), the United States Coast Guard Academy (1979-2008) and from 1991 to 2004 Midshipman candidates for the United States Merchant Marine Academy. In 2006, The Naval Academy Preparatory School named their newly built dormitory in honor of alumnus Colonel John Ripley. Ripley Hall is located on 440 Meyerkord Ave 〔 in Newport Rhode Island.〔()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Naval Academy Preparatory School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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